Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Almost any screen rendering of Frances Hodgson Burnett's famed story about an attachment between a small boy and his mother, which modern psychiatry might regard as dangerous if not traumatic, would automatically have been assured of an enthusiastic response from female cinemaddicts. However, not content to let the first production of Selznick International...
...sentimentality of its source, Producer Selznick has made this picture much more than a stock sample of Hollywood lavender & old lace. Although it exudes the nostalgic charm that has proved so palatable to cinemaudiences in adaptations of other Victorian classics, it is essentially not the story of a little boy's exaggerated devotion to his mother but that of a Brooklyn urchin who makes good in the old country. Handsomely rewritten for the screen by Hugh Walpole, beautifully staged, and superbly directed by John Cromwell, it affords proof that Selznick International is off to a flying start and offers...
...musical setup in Hollywood is saner now than New Yorkers might gather from the stage parody in Boy Meets Girl, in which a prankster buzzes for a composer, demands and gets a roundelay in 15 minutes. Composers and lyricists now attend conferences with producers and directors, receive specific assignments that take into consideration the personalities of the performers. One constant reminder is that a song must be catchy enough to impress on first hearing, as did Cheek to Cheek in Top Hat, Alone in One Night at the Opera...
Columbia's Victor Shertzinger writes songs (his bestseller: Marcheta) and directs Grace Moore's pictures. He began his musical career as a boy violinist, toured with Nordica, Sembrich, Calve. As a director he made 21 of the old Charles Ray comedies. But composing was more to his liking. He does most of his work on his pipe organ at home, tries his tunes out on his daughter Paula...
Play begins with a Speaker (cello-voiced Morris Carnovsky) appearing in the orchestra pit. In logical, compassionate language he explains that this story is going to be concerned with a young boy who is caught and destroyed between the mill wheels of the upper and lower classes, with neither of which does he succeed in identifying himself. Here is the boy (a light finds the face of Clyde on the dark stage). Here is one girl (a light finds Roberta). Here is another (out of the darkness springs the face of Sondra). Both are equally young, equally beautiful. But Sondra...